Sangoma S518

chpalmer

Has anyone ever used one of these guys with success?

http://www.sangoma.com/products/hardware_products/data_networking/s518.html

wm408

I have a couple of these. Right now they're boat anchors because the soekris net5501 board won't power the device.

Hopefully someone has…

Has anyone ever used one of these guys with success?

http://www.sangoma.com/products/hardware_products/data_networking/s518.html

cmb

Last I checked there isn't any BSD driver support for those. They're not really in demand given they're expensive, and have no benefit over DSL modems that are free with the service (maybe could argue one less device that could potentially fail, but you're adding a card that can fail to your firewall, so… a wash).

stephenw10

I used the Pulsar ADSL PCI card under IPCop for years with no problems. Yes it was expensive and in retrospect having one less device was not much of an advantage.
There are FreeBSD drivers available for it: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openadsl/files/freebsd-pulsar-driver/20051128/
They are very old though and were still in development even then. Since it only supports adsl1 I stopped using it some time ago. :(

Steve

Edit: This driver appears to be functional but incomplete for FreeBSD 5.1.

Edit: Also see: http://markelov.org/wiki/index.php/Pulsar_on_FreeBSD

stephenw10

There does appear to be a driver for the Sangoma S518.
It's more complete, newer and far better documented than the pulsar driver:
ftp://ftp.sangoma.com/FreeBSD/wanpipe/
It would still require some work though.

Steve

Edit: Fixed FTP link.

cmb

Sangoma stopped maintaining that 4 years ago, would require quite a bit of work to function today.

jimp

I've seen way too much DSL equipment fried by power surges/lightning strikes, even when it's been properly grounded, to ever put a DSL or Cable modem directly in any piece of equipment I care about. (Worked with a DSL ISP for years)

DSL CPEs are a dime a dozen. There are really no good reasons to put a DSL card in a pfSense box that are not offset by the disadvantages.

Replacing a DSL CPE may cost you $20 or so. Replacing an entire box because the card fried the entire system can be a couple hundred.

wm408

Ok, you've put my dreams to manage the entire connection in one device to sleep.

Thx Jimp. :D

@jimp:

I've seen way too much DSL equipment fried by power surges/lightning strikes, even when it's been properly grounded, to ever put a DSL or Cable modem directly in any piece of equipment I care about. (Worked with a DSL ISP for years)

DSL CPEs are a dime a dozen. There are really no good reasons to put a DSL card in a pfSense box that are not offset by the disadvantages.

Replacing a DSL CPE may cost you $20 or so. Replacing an entire box because the card fried the entire system can be a couple hundred.